Candidate for Washington State governor Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) will soon be getting a fundraising boost from none other than disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D), also known as “Client No. 9” in a federal investigation of a high-class prostitution ring, multiple news sources in New York are reporting Friday. Spitzer’s uptown Manhattan gathering for Inslee is the

Though Congressman Jay Inslee has been the lone Democrat in next year’s Washington State governor’s race, according to Seattle liberal blog Publicola he could have company. Though Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon (D) is currently running for re-election in a very tight race with Republican challenger Mike Hope, he may already be looking ahead to run for higher office. From

[Update: Comments from WSRP Chairman Kirby Wilbur added at bottom.] On Thursday’s announcement by Gov. Christine Gregoire of a late November special legislative session to resolve the state’s $1.5 billion budget woes, Republicans and Democrats in the Legislature traded opening statements in the press, and the candidates for governor added their own comments. Congressman and Democratic candidate for governor Jay

On Friday, congressman and Democratic candidate for governor Jay Inslee disclosed the details of a near-$200,000 rollover from his federal campaign fund, a transaction completed at the end of June. The Republican candidate in the race, Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, called the transfer into question on several grounds, precipitating a partial reversal of the Public Disclosure Commission’s earlier

UPDATE: Added comments from the McKenna campaign below the main post. It’s been a bumpy week for campaigns on both sides of the political fence in the Washington state governors race, one that Politico ranked today as the top most competitive gubernatorial race in the nation. Though Politico gave Democratic contender and 1st District Congressman Jay Inslee the edge in

You have only to listen to Congressman Jay Inslee’s kickoff announcement of his candidacy for Governor to realize his is absolutely the wrong person to put in charge of running Washington State. Like all politicians, he says he wants to improve the state’s economy and promote job creation, but exactly how does he plan on doing that? He says now

Since Congressman Jay Inslee made his announcement Monday  that he would challenge Republican Rob McKenna in next year’s election for governor, conversation has been stuck on one point—his proposal to use state pension funds for private sector investment in start-ups—in Inslee’s otherwise vaguely-defined plan to correct the state’s economic course. As reported by The Seattle Times: One of Inslee’s chief

The issue of green jobs and clean energy solutions is likely to feature prominently throughout Congressman Jay Inslee’s campaign for Washington State governor. But what is Inslee’s real track record on picking the winning and losing fuel sources for America’s future. Not good, according to environmental policy guru Todd Myers. Myers writes at Red County: Inslee has long been an

It seems that even without a full day having passed since Congressman Jay Inslee’s (D-Wash.) announcement to run for governor of Washington, Inslee’s reputation for giving out slippery facts has begun to infect the media friendly to his campaign. The site of Inslee’s Monday morning announcement of candidacy was Targeted Growth, Inc, a biotech firm in the South Lake Union

In the two weeks since Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna announced he was running for governor in 2012, the Associated Press has been wearing down red pencils fact-checking claims made during Republican Rob McKenna during his announcement speech earlier this month. The AP found errors in three of the claims made by McKenna and as is often the case

Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is soon-to-be a footnote in history, but for local congressman and sure-thing candidate for governor Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), the disgraced purveyor of social media prurience will live on in his campaign finance records. In October 2000, the Friends of Weiner slipped Inslee $1,000, coded as a contribution to his primary campaign in the 2000 election. (Though

Last week Attorney General Rob McKenna did an interview with TVW’s Austin Jenkins discussing his positions as a candidate for Governor. Among the policies discussed were McKenna’s position on tax increases, whether the voter-approved 2/3 vote requirement for tax increases is constitutional and if the state is fully taking advantage of opportunities for competitive contracting. Here is the video of

On Monday morning, standing in front of the Washington State Governor’s Mansion in Olympia, two-term incumbent Democrat Gov. Christine Gregoire told reporters that she would not seek a third term in office. Though Gregoire acknowledged that “serving in public office can be very lonely,” she said she “never felt lonely,” giving credit to her staff and supporters. As for her

Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna formally announced his candidacy Wednesday in the 2012 race to be Washington’s next governor, speaking to hundreds in attendance in the theater of a Bellevue high school. The McKenna campaign broadcast Wednesday’s live announcement from their Facebook page and posted a YouTube video in which McKenna criticized the lack of “strong and decisive leadership